After watching this movie, it is still very good. It is normal for the movie to be dramatic and exaggerated. The real anti-drug operation is not so fancy, but the dull cruelty without any sense of tragedy is thrilling, and it does not give you time to express emotions. Only to be afraid.
In general, this film can show the complexity of anti-drug operations in an intuitive and engaging form, and vaguely point out the key "organization" behind the drug problem.
For the high-risk and high-return "business" of drugs, although there are also many "self-employed", those who can mix well must be supported by organizations. In China, most of them are family-style, and the core is that the members are blood relatives or fake blood relatives - all kinds of godfathers and brothers, because there must be a common life and common interests as the basis of trust, and if it is bigger, it can develop into a village community joint insurance. (in the 1990s, the villages in Weishan, Dali, Pingyuan Street, and later Liangshan villages, Guangdong and Fujian villages, and certain ethnic villages in Xinjiang—this wave of people is now going to replace our little horses on the border of Yunnan), one drug dealer If you are caught, the village will pay for insurance. Without the support of the organization network, they can only be the horses that transport the goods.
In foreign countries, there are paramilitary organizations (guerrillas, anti-government forces, local warlords) such as the Waokha in the movie. Paramilitary organizations have more military support, have territory, and have a certain degree of discipline, so family-based drug trafficking organizations are still too young in front of such paramilitary organizations. (The Nuoka group is actually the remnant of a paramilitary organization, and its strength has declined, but it is more crazy)
However, as implied in the movie, in Southeast Asia and the Golden Triangle, characters like Nuoka are just bosses. Not very obedient dog inside.
Who is the boss? Don't hide it, it's the Thai military. In the movie, Nuoka is ordered to be black and black. On the one hand, the military can get the achievements of anti-drug, and on the other hand, it can kill the wild dogs (uncontrolled drug trafficking organizations) who dare to grab food. It's a pity that this dog, Nuoka, has a wild nature, and when it becomes fierce, it bites people and drags its owner into the water.
Speaking of the various military forces in Southeast Asia, although we Chinese seem to be scumbags, they are basically behemoths in the Southeast Asian society-state system, and they are the pillars of modernization in Southeast Asian society, and lack other social forces. Constrained by the military, it is also easy for the military to be too big and to abuse its power for its own selfish interests. In the past, many Southeast Asian governments were themselves military governments. Now the military has learned to play smarter games, retreating behind the scenes, letting the democratically elected governments (usually small and fresh) toss on the table, and then clean up the mess when something goes wrong and sit tight. Diaoyutai (such as the army after the Thai red-yellow shirt struggle).
As the military grows bigger, it will also form its own organizational system for self-interest. The military in Southeast Asia and Thailand will certainly not be able to benefit from the military-industrial complex and the global protection fee (foreign military purchases) like the US imperialists. You can only rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, raise a bandit, and participate in smuggling and drug trafficking. Therefore, the Golden Triangle has been able to exist for a long time, and everyone is tacit. Bandits like Nuoka, and middlemen like Brother Song (who are definitely from the military) all need the support of the military, and the boss is not a military boss, but the military itself - everyone has been used to taking it for many years. This money, even if there is a boss who doesn't want to take money, he can't do anything.
In the end, I still have to thank the elder. One of the three major achievements the elder said was to take back the devil released by the second generation. . It also teaches us that it is just as important to give dignity to an organization as it is to keep it in chains.
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